Unexpected hypoxia might not be to bad in a case where a person is unconscious such as carbon monoxide poisoning or cabin pressure loss in a plane, but if you’re slowly losing air and are awake, aware, and panicking the entire time… That death would be psychologically horrific as you’re well aware that you’re dying and there is nothing you can do.
The process of reaching hypoxia would be indeed terrifying, but once you are there and oxygen begins to run out things become much more peaceful, and not only for the sensation in itself but because one simply begins losing the ability to think of the fact that they are going to die and about everything that surrounds them. Under those circumstances, one simply dies unaware of their own death.
Hypoxia is actually not a bad way to go. It’s hypercapnia the one that is a terrible thing to die of.
Unexpected hypoxia might not be to bad in a case where a person is unconscious such as carbon monoxide poisoning or cabin pressure loss in a plane, but if you’re slowly losing air and are awake, aware, and panicking the entire time… That death would be psychologically horrific as you’re well aware that you’re dying and there is nothing you can do.
The process of reaching hypoxia would be indeed terrifying, but once you are there and oxygen begins to run out things become much more peaceful, and not only for the sensation in itself but because one simply begins losing the ability to think of the fact that they are going to die and about everything that surrounds them. Under those circumstances, one simply dies unaware of their own death.